CarMax didn’t win the used car market by selling cars—it won by moving them. Behind its clean showrooms and online listings is a logistics engine that treats every vehicle like a high-velocity SKU. With reconditioning hubs that operate like fulfillment centers, an internal carrier network, and real-time inventory orchestration, CarMax has quietly built one of the most advanced supply chains in retail. This isn’t a dealership model. It’s a national distribution network disguised as car sales—and it’s the reason they turn inventory twice as fast as competitors.

Luxury watches are valuable, collectible, and often counterfeited. Bezel is betting that trust—not just selection or price—is the real differentiator in online watch retail. With authentication protocols, supply chain transparency, and a vertically integrated fulfillment model, Bezel isn’t just a marketplace. It’s a logistics company designed to de-risk a high-value, high-friction category.

Most missed prescriptions don’t fail at the pharmacy—they fail in the handoff. ScriptDrop doesn’t deliver meds. It delivers the logistics infrastructure that makes sure every script reaches the right patient, on time, and fully compliant. This is last-mile built for healthcare.

Most retailers don’t fail at delivery—they fail at coordination. Bringg doesn’t move boxes. It moves logic. And it’s quietly becoming the platform that lets multi-store, multi-fleet brands orchestrate fulfillment with Amazon-like control.

ShipBob combines real-time software with a distributed warehouse network to give fast-growing DTC brands full control over fulfillment. Here's how it's building a logistics platform that scales like a tech company—not a trucking company.

Harbor Freight doesn’t chase hype—it runs a tight, disciplined supply chain. With its own fleet, six DCs, and fewer than 8,000 SKUs, it delivers high-turn inventory with warehouse precision. This isn’t just retail—it’s logistics in motion.

Toast started as a point-of-sale tool. Today, it’s the heartbeat of logistics in over 90,000 restaurants—coordinating delivery, prep, inventory, and loyalty into one system. In a world where restaurants act like micro-fulfillment centers, Toast is the real-time OS powering them behind the scenes.

Uber Eats looks like food delivery. Under the hood, it’s one of the most sophisticated real-time logistics systems in the world. With driver pooling, dynamic batching, restaurant-side logic, and global coverage, Eats is quietly building an adaptable fulfillment engine—one that could go far beyond meals.

Stord isn’t a 3PL—it’s a logistics layer that lets mid-sized brands move like enterprise players. With a nationwide fulfillment network and software that controls every node, Stord helps DTC and retail brands scale fast, stay flexible, and avoid long-term logistics lock-in.

Parade.ai doesn’t want to replace brokers—it wants to make them faster, smarter, and more profitable. By embedding itself inside the freight workflow, Parade turns tribal carrier knowledge into a behavioral data engine. The result? Lower fall-offs, faster coverage, and a freight memory brokers can scale.

Flock Freight isn’t just a broker—it’s building a new freight category. By using AI to pool shipments from multiple shippers onto a single truck, they created a patented shared truckload (STL) model that’s cleaner, cheaper, and smarter than LTL. And it’s not a gimmick. It’s a margin-positive innovation that works for both sides of the network.

Most healthcare bottlenecks aren’t clinical—they’re logistical. Offor Health is solving that by routing mobile specialists into underutilized medical offices across rural America. From mobile anesthesia to distributed diagnostics, it’s building healthcare’s shared infrastructure layer.

Boxed built the warehouse. It built the software. But the margin math never worked. In this post-mortem, I break down why vertical integration wasn’t enough, what its failure says about DTC logistics, and why operations alone can’t defend a weak business model.

Flexe is what happens when you stop thinking about warehouses as fixed assets—and start treating them like a network. With over 1,500 partner sites, $260M in funding, and deep integrations with top retailers, Flexe turned underutilized capacity into a scalable freight layer. It’s not just warehousing—it’s infrastructure-as-a-service.

Home Depot isn’t chasing Amazon. It’s building something different: a national freight network designed to serve contractors, projects, and big, heavy orders with speed and precision. From RDCs to jobsite flatbeds, the $150B retailer turned logistics into its strongest moat.

FedEx was once the blueprint for global logistics—but years of silos, underperformance, and rising competition forced a reckoning. Now, under new leadership, FedEx is consolidating its Ground and Express networks, investing billions into automation, and selling off weak freight lanes to streamline its footprint. This blog breaks down why the $90B logistics giant is shrinking to scale—and whether that gamble will finally close the gap with UPS and Amazon.

J.B. Hunt didn’t disrupt the freight industry—it outlasted the disruptors. While digital brokers burned VC cash, Hunt built J.B. Hunt 360°, a $1B+ freight marketplace layered onto its existing fleet, intermodal network, and contract base. With nearly half its revenue now coming from intermodal—and a tech stack rooted in operational execution—it may be the most future-proof freight company in America.

While national chains spent billions chasing grocery dominance, H-E-B quietly built a fortress. Its edge? A vertically integrated supply chain, disaster-hardened distribution, and deep regional control. Here’s how it wins—every time.

Ryder might be best known for rental trucks—but behind the scenes, it runs one of the most complete logistics platforms in North America. From dedicated fleets and e-commerce fulfillment to final-mile delivery and network optimization, Ryder’s Logistics-as-a-Service stack is built to scale with stability. This post breaks down why it works—and why it’s winning.

Greybar isn’t flashy, but it’s everywhere. This 150-year-old, employee-owned distributor has quietly built one of the most resilient supply chains in North America—powering construction, utilities, and industrial projects with just-in-time delivery and deep product expertise. While others chase disruption, Greybar proves that discipline, ownership, and logistics done right still scale.